Try substituting Almond meal for wheat. For dairy use coconut milk. Check out http://www.wheatbellyblog.com

The Weston A Price Foundation might have some alternatives. Sally Fallon, the president of the Weston A Price Foundation, wrote a book called Nourishing Traditions. She shows you how to make your own katsup, mayonaise, broth, etc. She is a big proponent of using natural fats and real food. Some of the oils she recommends using are coconut oil, palm oil, flax seed oil, and olive oil. If you’re using Canola oil please stop using it. Canola is made from Rapeseed and is not good for human consumption. The little omega-3 that is in the oil is converted to trans fatty acids during the deodorizing process. It also causes a deficiency of Vitamin E and heart lesions especially when your diet is low in saturated fats.

What we’ve been told about nutrition is totally bogus. I can’t believe that I’ve been listening to politicians tell me what to eat. No wonder the obesity rates have sky-rocked since the 1980s. Don’t listen to the politicians they only want to support their people. Read up on Gary Taubes who is a science journalist who wrote Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It. Go Paleo. Use Lard. Use Tallow. Use Suet. Use Butter! Your body will thank you for it.

I now keep it in the frige and use it in place of oil when appropriate. My goal was to reduce the amount of chemicals in my food and this was another step.

At 59 I will continue to cook with the more natural fats using them appropriately and sparingly. I feel much better and have lost 40 lbs without making major changes – just getting rid of packaged and pre-processed foods. It seems when it taste’s good I get full faster and want less.

Lard was widely used in America in the 1800′s. In 1900 heart disease and heart attacks was virtually unknown. So much so that the average doctor didn’t know how to treat heart disease that year.

In 1930 the population of the US was 123,000,000. There were 3000 heart attack deaths that year. Which means the odds of dying of a heart attack was 42,000 to 1. Not too shabby.

In 1960 the population of the US was 197,000,000. That year 500,000 Americans died of heart attacks: Odds? 3500 to 1.

From 1930 to 1960 everyone was switching from lard & butter to margarine, vegetable oils & skim milk.All “heart healthy” choices. As a result we started dying like flies.

Dr. Paul White, who treated Eisenhower when he had his heart attack, started his practice in 1910. He didn’t treat his first heart disease patient until 1921. That’s 11 years!!! There isn’t a doctor in America today who can go 11 days without treating a heart disease patient.

If we want to reverse heart disease in America today we need to return to the foods & diet that our ancestors were consuming back in the 1800′s. Pass the lard, please.

Jeff

I will use lard from now on.